Self-driving car to make 3,500 mile trip

22 Mar, 2015

A car outfitted with Delphi’s self-driving technology is driving itself from California to New York, a trip of 3,500 miles. This long-distance test is intended to help Delphi collect more data about highways.

Around the periphery there’s forward vision, there’s radar, there’s also lidar, the car has high accuracy GPS, and also vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to infrastructure communications…We’re using radar and vision systems and those rely on the infrastructure and vehicles around them for the car to make decisions.